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DEFENDING CLIENT CHARGED WITH SOLICITATION, PROSTITUTION OR PANDERING

Maryland does not tolerate Prostitution, Pandering, or Solicitation. Now more than ever, these offenses are being targeted and prosecuted. Maryland routinely does sting operations in an attempt to stop these offenses. Unfortunately, even being charged with an offense of prostitution, pandering or solicitation causes tremendous public humiliation. Not to mention, marital strife. We empathize with clients who face these difficulties and work closely with them in an endeavor to avoid conviction. The Maryland criminal defense attorneys of SRIS, P.C. regularly defend clients who are charged with offenses related to prostitution, solicitation or pandering in Maryland. For more information or to make an appointment with SRIS, P.C. Maryland criminal defense lawyer, please call, send an e-mail or complete the on-line form.

If you have been arrested or charged with an act of prostitution or solicitation you need to contact the prostitution defense attorneys at SRIS, P.C.

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Here are some of the different types of offenses the State of Maryland may charge regarding prostitution, solicitation, or pandering:

• House of prostitution
• Pandering
• Receiving earnings of prostitute
• Unnatural or perverted sexual practice

MD Code § 11-306. House of prostitution (top)

Prohibited

(a) A person may not knowingly:
(1) engage in prostitution or assignation by any means;
(2) keep, set up, occupy, maintain, or operate a building, structure, or conveyance for prostitution or assignation;
(3) allow a building, structure, or conveyance owned or under the person's control to be used for prostitution or assignation;
(4) allow or agree to allow a person into a building, structure, or conveyance for prostitution or assignation; or
(5) procure or solicit or offer to procure or solicit for prostitution or assignation.

Penalty

(b) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $500 or both.

MD Code § 11-303. Pandering (top)

Prohibited--In general(a) A person may not knowingly:
(1) take or cause another to be taken to any place for prostitution;
(2) place, cause to be placed, or harbor another in any place for prostitution;
(3) persuade or encourage by threat or promise another to be taken to or placed in any place for prostitution;
(4) unlawfully take or detain another with the intent to use force, threat, or persuasion to compel the other to marry the person or a third person or perform a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse; or
(5) receive consideration to procure for or place in a house of prostitution or elsewhere another with the intent of causing the other to engage in prostitution or assignation.

Prohibited--Consent of parent or guardian

(b) A parent, guardian, or person who has permanent or temporary care or custody or responsibility for supervision of another may not consent to the taking or detention of the other for prostitution.

Penalty

(c) A person who violates this section is guilty of the misdemeanor of pandering and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.

Statute of limitations and in banc review

(d) A person who violates this section is subject to § 5-106(b) of the Courts Article.

Venue

(e) A person who violates this section may be charged, tried, and sentenced in any county in or through which the person transported or attempted to transport the other.

MD Code § 11-304. Receiving earnings of prostitute (top)

Prohibited

(a) A person may not receive or acquire money or proceeds from the earnings of a person engaged in prostitution with the intent to:
(1) promote a crime under this subtitle;
(2) profit from a crime under this subtitle; or(3) conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of money or proceeds of a crime under this subtitle.

Penalty

(b) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $10,000 or both.

Statute of limitations and in banc review

(c) A person who violates this section is subject to § 5-106(b) of the Courts Article.

MD Code § 3-322. Unnatural or perverted sexual practice (top)

Prohibited

(a) A person may not:
(1) take the sexual organ of another or of an animal in the person's mouth;
(2) place the person's sexual organ in the mouth of another or of an animal; or
(3) commit another unnatural or perverted sexual practice with another or with an animal.

Penalty

(b) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both.

Statute of limitations and in banc review

(c) A person who violates this section is subject to § 5-106(b) of the Courts Article.
Charging document
(d) An indictment for a violation of this section:
(1) is sufficient if it states that the defendant committed an unnatural and perverted sexual practice with a person or animal as applicable; but
(2) need not state the particular:
(i) unnatural or perverted sexual practice with which the defendant is charged; or
(ii) manner in which the defendant committed the unnatural or perverted sexual practice.

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